From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:53:19 +0300 Message-ID: <8338up50m8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366167258 13916 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2013 02:54:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 04:54:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USIVo-0007pk-JO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:54:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIVo-0005xc-7W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIVj-0005uM-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIVi-00011J-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USIVi-00010v-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLD00G00P94CY00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:53:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLD00GNOPCG0160@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:53:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158965 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:46 -0400 > > > -OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([w32], [use native MS Windows GUI]) > > +OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([w32], [use native MS Windows GUI in a Cygwin build]) > > Why is it only for Cygwin builds? Because for the native build, that's not an option: you cannot NOT use it. > > +LN_EMACS="\$(LN_S)" > > +if test "$opsys" = "mingw32"; then > > + LN_EMACS="ln" > > +fi > > +AC_SUBST(LN_EMACS) > > Could we run `ln' to see if it handles -s, instead of testing $opsys? The configure script already does, and it sets LN_S to "cp -p" as result. Which is fine everywhere, except when installing Emacs, where I prefer a hard link, which wastes less disk space. > > + Do not use these instructions with MSYS encironment. For building > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > + You are almost there, hand on. > ^^^^ > hang Oops. > > --- nt/gnulib.mk 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 > > +++ nt/gnulib.mk 2013-03-31 13:14:54 +0000 > > @@ -0,0 +1,858 @@ > > +## This file is an edited copy if ../lib/gnulib.mk. > > Could we auto-generate this file, based on a new nt/gnulib.mkdiff script? We could, but I'd like more time to pass to see whether this is needed and how best to generate that (e.g., Sed or Patch).